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Dental Society, at their next annual meeting, as follows: Two
shall be elected for one year, two for two years, and two for three
years, and each year thereafter two shall be elected to serve for
three years, or until their successors are elected. The said Board
shall have power to fill all vacancies for unexpired terms, and
they shall be responsible to said State Dental Society for their
acts.
It shall be the duty of this Board:
Sec. 3.
1. To meet annually at the time and place of meeting of the
Pennsylvania State Dental Society, and at such other time and
place as the said Board shall agree upon, to conduct the exami-
nation of applicants. They shall also meet for the same purpose,
at the call of any four members of said Board, at any time and
place as may be designated. Thirty days' notice must be given
of the meetings, by advertising in at least three periodicals, one
of them being a dental journal, and all published within this
State.
2. To grant a certificate of ability to practice dentistry,
which certificate shall be signed by said Board and stamped with
a suitable seal, to all applicants who undergo a satisfactory
examination, and who receive at least four affirmative votes.
To keep a book in which shall be registered the names
3.
and the qualifications of such, as far as practicable, of all persons
who have been granted certificates of ability to practice dentistry
under the provisions of this Act.
Sec. 4. The book so kept shall be a book of record, and a
transcript from it, certified to by the officer who has it in keep-
ing, with a seal of said Board of Examiners, shall be evidence in
any court of this State.
Sec. 5. Four members of this Board shall constitute a quo-
rum for the transaction of business; and should a quorum not be
present on any day appointed for their meeting, those present
may adjourn, from day to day, until a quorum is present.
Sec. 6. Any person who shall, in violation of this Act, prac-
tice dentistry in the State of Pennsylvania, shall be liable to
indictment in the court of quarter sessions of the proper county,
and on conviction shall be fined not less than fifty or more than
two hundred dollars: Provided, That any person so convicted
shall not be entitled to a fee for services rendered, and if a fee
shall have been paid, the patient, or his or her heirs, may recover
the same as debts of like amount are now recoverable by law.